Quote Originally Posted by TraceMalin View Post
We failed because there was a 3-foot tech window. Bob had placed a double-ender at 25 feet on an upline unknown to us. We didn't hear him say to go up to 25 feet after doing skills at 30 feet... During our video eval Bob pointed out that we were indeed within a 3-foot window at 30 feet, but that was 5 feet more than 25, so we failed a tech pass.
If this was a cds instructor instead of a gue guy, you'd be all over this, Richard. People need to stop putting everything gue on a pedestal. It's just scuba diving... there is no special sauce or magic trim tricks.
What Trace writes is much more inline with my real-world experience than the 200 fundi class reports written by freshly backed super tec-divers.